California Stores Pilot NFC System Providing Electronic Receipts
Claire Swedber, RFID, 1/31/2012 Proximiant expects its RFID-enabled solution to be used by 1,000 stores by late spring, allowing a retailer’s customers to download receipts and discount offers on their mobile phones, thereby eliminating the need for paper receipts and coupons. California startup Proximiant reports that a dozen San Francisco Bay Area stores are piloting [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: NFC, SMS
T-Mobile launches VoIP services for iPhone
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, 1/10/2012 T-Mobile is offering a calling service for iPhone and iPad users, even though it doesn’t sell those devices. The operator is expanding its free voice-over-IP service, called Bobsled, to iPhones, iPads, and Android phones. Users with the app can make calls to mobile or landline phones in the U.S., [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: MMS, SMS, T-Mobile, WiFi
AT&T unveils a new API platform for HTML5 apps
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Servic, 1/9/2012 The operator also said it plans to launch an online store for HTML5 apps this year AT&T is hoping to encourage developers to use HTML5 with the release of a new API platform. “It’s essentially a rich set of APIs and tools aimed at furthering the HTML5 appeal as [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: API, AT&T, GPS, HTML5, MMS, SMS
GSM phones vulnerable to hijack scams-researcher
Tarmo Virki, Reuters, 12/27/2011 Vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones And instruct them to send text messages or make calls, according to an expert on mobile phone security. They could use the vulnerability in the GSM network technology, which is used by billions of people [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: GSM, SMS, T-Mobile
Windows Phone Becomes Latest Microsoft OS to Suffer From “Nuking”
Jason Mick, DailyTech, 12/13/2011 Hackers can reset your phone via SMS, Facebook, or Windows Live Messenger communications Some of you may have fond memories of “nuking” local Windows 95 machines using urgent pointer (URG) based TCP “winnuke” tools (e.g. “NukeIt”) or Windows 98 machines via large fragmented IGMP packets with malformed headers. Now Microsoft’s Windows [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: SMS
Carrier IQ issues lengthy report on data collection practices, sticks to its guns
Amar Toor, Engadget, 12/13/2011 After having already tried to explain itself with metaphor, Carrier IQ is now taking its floundering PR campaign back to basics, with an ostensibly thorough primer on its practices and a slightly less convoluted defense of its privacy standards. This morning, the controversial analytics firm released a lengthy, 19-page document that [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: SMS
Control your Android phone over wifi from your desktop
morta, HelloAndroid.com, 11/28/2011 For those who spend a lot of time looking at a computer, and can’t be bothered to look at their phone very often, Sand Studio has introduced AirDroid, an app that allows users to control their Android Phone from a computer via WiFi. The great thing about AirDroid is that it works [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: SMS, WiFi
Firefox 7 for Android now available
Phil Nickinson, AndroidCentral, 9/27/2011 If you’re a fan of the Firefox browser for Android, know that Firefox 7 is now available in the Android Market. Officially, the changelog is as follows: Improved copy and paste: Copy any site content and paste to other applications, SMS, or text fields Built-in language detection on first run WebSockets [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: API, SMS
Verizon pairs up with Intuit to bring credit card processing to smartphones, tablets
Dan Seifert, MobileBurn, 8/25/2011 Verizon Wireless and Intuit have introduced GoPayment, a new service that allows small businesses to accept credit card payments for goods and services with a smartphone or tablet. Similar to the Square program that is already available for the iPhone and iPad, GoPayment utilizes a card reader that plugs into the [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: SMS, Verizon
Banking Trojan hits Android phones
Brad Reed, Network World, 7/14/2011 Android users hit by banking Trojan that has plagued Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Phone users A banking Trojan that has plagued Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Phone users has now made its way to Android devices. The Zitmo Trojan, which has been used by the ZeuS criminal gang to steal banking information, was [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, Mobile Technology, Symbian, WinPhone · Tagged with: Malware, SMS